BROOKS, Mo, a Representative from Alabama; born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., April 29, 1954; graduated from Grissom High School, Huntsville,
Ala., 1972; B.A., Duke University, Durham, N.C., 1975; J.D., University of
Alabama School of Law, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1978; lawyer, private practice;
Tuscaloosa County, Ala. prosecutor, 1978-1980; clerk, Circuit Court Judge John
Snodgrass, 1980-1982; member of the Alabama house of representatives,
1982-1992; Madison County, Ala. district attorney, 1991-1993; special assistant
attorney general, state of Alabama, 1995-2002; commissioner, Madison County,
Ala., board of commissions, 1996-2010; elected as a Republican to the One
Hundred Twelfth and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3,
2011-present).